If you're looking for a genuinely Japanese Sushi experience, don't come here, for it is run by Chinese people and as an All-You-Can-Eat place, the concept is not really a Japanese one. While the chef will greet you in the traditional "Irasshaimase", but don't expect much conversation if you're trying to polish your Japanese skills. I've done my fair share of All-You-Can-Eat Sushi, and I can probably cram more rice and fish down my throat as much as any other competitve eater. They run this place efficiently -- a laminated menu and an dry-erase pen to mark down your choices and the orders arrives quickly, fresh from the sushi chef. Tea arrives with its own pot, allowing you to serve yourself, and servers come back to snatch up the dishes almost as soon as you've finished the items on the plate. They allow ordering three items at a time, a marked difference from places that allow you to order three for your first order, and one each for each successive one.
Their lunch menu is diverse in offering nigiri, rolls, and temaki (hand rolls) but also feels constrained as far as selection goes. It seemed that most items on the menu were deep fried or slathered with sauce. They use a thick, sweet brown sauce to top several of their rolls -- their worst offender was the spider roll and the rolls containing eel. Their fish is fresh, but you won't be seeing any of the more expensive fishes in the rolls -- only in the nigiri. Their crab is the imitation type (except in the soft-shell) mixed with mayo.
While I've definitely had better All-You-Can-Eat sushi, I've also had a lot worse. If you're looking to fill up on sushi for lunch in Mountain View, and you don't work at Google, and you don't want to spend more than $20, give Sushi 85 a try. If you're a real sushi connoisseur, you'll get better use out of your money by spending $10 to $20 more at a real sushi place.
Sidenote: It's been a good seven or eight hours later and I'm still burping up the remnants of lunch.
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